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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
4
The Patoka Register announces James M. Emerson as publisher in Patoka Illinois. It notes registration as second class matter and lists a subscription price of 1.50 dollars per year.
Public notice explains that any event listings with a charge are classified as advertising and priced accordingly. Card of thanks and ice cream supper announcements are treated as advertising, with fees applied for submitted notices. The policy clarifies that meal or supper announcements included in the Register incur a charge.
Want column for sale fresh cows Elmer Berry wanted a few butcher heifers James Wasem phone 49 for sale two males four and five years old about 16 hands high one mare seven years old and nine pigs O H Britt peas and soys recleaned lots whips eras and Virginias special prices while they last Pfeffer Bros 235 N Oak Centralia Ill Flour Feed and Seeds
An ice cream supper for the benefit of the church will be held at Zion on Saturday night July 1. Cakes will be appreciated if anyone wishes to donate. Everyone come.
A Centralia resident, B M Inglish, seeks improved farms near Patoka and asks recipients to contact him with offers. He notes multiple calls received for nearby properties.
An ice cream supper will be held at Island Chapel on Saturday night July 8 with free entertainment. All are welcome to attend.
Cracker Neck reports heat and drought with Uncle Dock Shepard turning 78 while clearing brush for fun. Rollie Stombaugh and family from Vandalia visited, with Bessie Stark staying briefly. Local families note improved health among the sick as John Shepard, Charley Shepard, Luther Barnes, and Ed Barnes kin visit J. A. Shepard. Fayette county Sheriff was in the Neck Sunday.
The speaker suggests Sunday preaching and biweekly prayer meetings to improve the town. A Christian preacher is available to conduct a week or ten days of meetings for a donation the community can provide.
East Fork residents Oze Hill and family with Jesse Roe Hill visited Lawrence Perrine and family. Ransom Hicks called on Earl Horton and family. Ernest Schmahl visited Don Peddicord. Many families attended social calls and shopping in Patoka. Local notes mention fat folks braving heat, horse shoes for weight loss, and livestock shipments to St Louis. Mrs. Earl Horton improves after a cow incident.
Russell Palmer and Lee Allaberry were visitors at Wm Perkins on Friday. Mr and Mrs Everett Jett and nephew Robert Lee Hyde visited relatives nearby over the weekend. Alex Anderson and others called at Willie Perkins home Sunday. Leona Wehkieg and Eila Wehkieg visited Freda Perkins Chester Palmer and family for dinner. Bertha Palmer called on Mary Perkins and Fredia Perkins Monday. Mrs Logan Meredith visits sister in Moweaqua while she remains seriously ill.
A somber note expresses sympathy for Mrs Louise Horton after a serious accident that occurred several Sundays ago and wishes her a swift recovery.
Mrs. Mary Burke of Vandalia visited friends in St Elmo on Tuesday. Vandalia residents the Stombaughs entertained relatives near Greenville and Decatur visitors called on the hill Saturday night and midweek. Mrs. Amel Oberg and children with Miss Rosa Laswell visited Saturday night. Evelyn Thomas and Herald Thomas stayed with J. R. Stombaugh’s family Wednesday night. Mrs. John Merriman and two children plan to visit Decatur this week and return Sunday. Mrs. Sam Bryant of near Smithboro is spending a few days in Vandalia with her son Archie Bryant and daughter-in-law Buster Schert and Daniel Lynn. Margaret Oberg visited Marybell Stombaugh Wednesday.
The Insurance Index publisher J. E. Dunne denounces the governor for breaking campaign promises and criticizes the appointment of the Superintendent of Insurance. The open letter claims the appointee is offensive to citizens and unworthy, urging resignation and denouncing lack of disinterested governance in Illinois.
A train halted abruptly after a cow crossed the track. Passengers panicked while an amused conductor explained they had chased the animal into a barn, sparking shaken yet comic disbelief among travelers.
Fairman and Heinrichs families visited friends including the Ahlf and Cozad households while birthday celebrations for Kathry n June Cozad and Lois Smith were noted. Visits extended across Ticknor and Bowen households with relatives from Centralia and oil-field friends. A picnic and creek swim were among Sunday activities with Galbreath entertaining relatives from Centralia.
Miss Edith Fulton spent a week with her sister Mrs. Perry Thompson and husband and returned to her home Monday accompanied by her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cozad.
Mrs Lib Doolen and Mrs Emmeline Massey travel to Kinmundy for an indefinite stay. Several families visit relatives including Effie Arnold Laura of Alma and Elizabeth Meador. A Children Day program at the Charen drew a large crowd. Rev P R Glottsky departs for Elkhorn Wisconsin with Miss Liza Murfin for summer study.
The Patoka Charge of the M. E. Church South lists Sunday School at Island Chapel at 9 30 a m with John Williams as superintendent in charge. Preaching is scheduled for 10 45 a m and 8 00 p m with W D Humphrey as pastor and invites public attendance.
A Pentecost Church review notes progress as preparation begins on the Old Testament. Bro. Paul will preach Sunday night. The Young Peoples meeting featured brief talks a piano solo by Ivis Ellis and a vocal duet by Bill Williams and Eugene Parker.
Sunday School attendance 53 and offerings $10. Church services at 10 45 a m and 8 p m. New officers elected across Sunday School and B Y P U groups including Superintendent Carroll Mojonnier and President Carl Rogier with multiple assistants and pianists named.
Sunday service notes report the Lesson Sermon titled God at all Churches of Christ Scientist. The Golden Text proclaims The Lord shall reign for ever and ever from Exodus 15 18. Bible citations include O Lord there is none like thee and there is no other God beside thee according to all we have heard.
The Lesson-Sermon quotes from I Chronicles and the Christian Science textbook. It emphasizes God as the divine Principle of all that is real with Spirit Life Truth and Love as universal attributes and manifestations of the infinite Principle.
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